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Conrad, language, and narrative / Michael Greaney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greaney, Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924--Language.
- Conrad, Joseph.
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924--Technique.
- Fiction--Technique.
- Fiction.
- Narration (Rhetoric)--History--20th century.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Conrad, Language, & Narrative
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this re-evaluation of the writings of Joseph Conrad, Michael Greaney places language and narrative at the heart of his literary achievement. A trilingual Polish expatriate, Conrad brought a formidable linguistic self-consciousness to the English novel; tensions between speech and writing are the defining obsessions of his career. He sought very early on to develop a 'writing of the voice' based on oral or communal modes of storytelling. Greaney argues that the 'yarns' of his nautical raconteur Marlow are the most challenging expression of this voice-centred aesthetic. But Conrad's suspicion that words are fundamentally untrustworthy is present in everything he wrote. The political novels of his middle period represent a breakthrough from traditional storytelling into the writerly aesthetic of high modernism. Greaney offers an examination of a wide range of Conrad's work which combines recent critical approaches to language in post-structuralism with an impressive command of linguistic theory.
- Contents:
- pt. I. Speech Communities. 1. 'The realm of living speech': Conrad and oral community. 2. 'Murder by language': 'Falk' and Victory. 3. 'Drawing-room voices': language and space in The Arrow of Gold
- pt. II. Marlow. 4. Modernist storytelling: 'Youth' and 'Heart of Darkness'. 5. The scandals of Lord Jim. 6. The gender of Chance
- pt. III. Political Communities. 7. Nostromo and anecdotal history. 8. Linguistic dystopia: The Secret Agent. 9. 'Gossip tales, suspicions': language and paranoia in Under Western Eyes.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-192) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-12457-3
- 0-521-12084-5
- 0-511-30383-1
- 0-511-15526-3
- 0-511-11987-9
- 1-280-16239-2
- 0-511-04448-8
- 0-511-48510-7
- OCLC:
- 437063465
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